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MERCURIALE, Girolamo. DE ARTE GYMNASTICA LIBRI SEX. Editio novissima, aucta, emendata, et figuris authenticis Christophori Coriolani exornata. Amsterdam: Andreas Frisius, 1672. Six engraved plates (5 folding, 1 double-page), also newly added engraved title and many additional woodcut plates (some full-page) not present in earlier versions, from the work of Justus Lipsius. Square 4to, [viii] 387pp + [41] index and errata; 20th-century paneled calf, unobtrusive ex-library stamp throughout, inserted plates with neat repairs to inner folds verso, title with old ink-stain and 18th-century ownership signed 'Henry Tonge Junr'. "First illustrated book on gymnastics. It is the foundation-stone of later work on the subjects and it is important for the study of the gymnastics among the ancients, especially significant in discussing the therapeutic value of gymnastics and sports generally for the cure of disease and disability, The pictures show gymnasiums, baths, wrestling, discus hurling, fighting, and… Read More

DARWIN (Charles): THE DESCENT OF MAN, and Selection in Relation to Sex. London: John Murray, 1890. With 78 text illustrations. 8vo., (approx. 19.5 x 13.5cm), xvi + 693 pp.; dark green cloth with gilt spine, impressed line borders to upper and lower covers, slightest rubbing at corners but overall a fine copy. Second Edition, Revised and Augmented: Twenty-Ninth Thousand; the first edition in two volumes was published 1871 and contained the word 'evolution' (p.2) for the first time in any of Darwin's works. (Freeman 959, p. 128-132). The text exerted a vast influence over scientific and religious thinking in the 19th century, disturbing widely-held views on the origin of the human species, the age of the earth, and humans' supposedly superior role in the universe. Darwin's objective in Descent was threefold: to consider whether humans were descended from a pre-existing form; to consider the nature of human development; and to consider the differences between the "human races". Revisiting this… Read More

(DALAI LAMA)
Vintage press photograph of Tenzin Gyatso (Chinese: 拉木登珠), 14th Dalai Lama, born 1935 and chosen 1940 but not formally enthroned until 1950.
In 1954 he represented Tibet as government official to the first National Assembly of the PRC meeting Chairman Mao, at that time also accompanied by the Panchen Lama. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.
Dutch Press label on verso identifying the photographer as Irene Slegt, undated, but ca. 1956.

Irene Slegt was one of the three brave women journalists, herself a photographer and war correspondent, who stayed and ended up with the 1500 refugees at the UN compound in Dili, East Timor, to report on the atrocities and erupting violence since the Independence referendum, and witnessed while the Indonesian army was purging the Timorese of their religion, culture and social fabric.

(JAPANESE Children's Books). HERRING (Ann): The Dawn of Wisdom: Selections from the Japanese Collection of the Cotsen Children's Library. [Los Angeles:] Cotsen Occasional Press [2000]. Profusely Illustrated in color. 4to., x 136 pp.; printed pictorial wrappers. First edition of this important monograph on Japanese children's books in the Cotsen Children's Library from the late 17th century to the present focusing not only on books and magazines but also on printed games, puzzles, posters, broadsides, prints, panel-theater-sets, educational material for home and school use, and playing cards. This selection of items gives a survey of the early production of books for children from the Heian Period (794-1185), Tokugawa (Edo) period (ca. 1615-1868), the Meiji Era (1868-1911), Taisho Democracy and its influence (1912-1932), the strong Nationalist sentiments from the 1930s onwards, and the reconstruction period from 1945.

BYRON (Lord George Noël Gordon, Baron), 1788–1824
De Gjouwer, Fragment eener Turksche Vertelling. Naar het Engelsch van Lord Byron door J J L Ten Kate.
Dordrecht: van Houtryve en Bredius, 1840.
8vo., viii 127 pp.; original cloth-backed printed decorated blue-grey boards (soiled, printed spine label rubbed, spine ends chipped).
Dutch edition of "The Giaour" (1813).

This classic WAR OF THE WORLDS story was originally serialized in nine issues of Pearson's Magazine (1897/98) with pictures by Warwick Goble; these got reprinted in the first American book version (1898), but the original first edition (London 1898) is unillustrated as is also the 1899 second edition. Our Dutch translation is thus the first illustrated book version. The artist Jacobus Hendrik Speenhoff (1869-1945) is known as a poet, singer and artist, a somewhat radical cabaret performer whose degenerate lyrics made him a pioneer legend. He created very few illustrated books or pictorial bindings (mostly on piano music and satire). This version is quite rare, especially one can imagine in this high-grade condition.

POTTER (Beatrix)Dear Ivy, Dear June; Letters from Beatrix PotterToronto: Friends of the Osborne and Lillian H Smith Collections, 1977.Illustrated, including many facsimile sketches taken from Helen Beatrix Potter's original picture-letters, here transcribed. 8vo., x 166 pp.; brown cloth with gilt title on spine and pictorial design gilt-stamped on upper cover, orange pictorial board slip-case. As New. First and only edition of these fifty-four letters written from 1924 to 1943 to Ivy Hunt Steel and her daughter Jane. The elder recipient was born in London and emigrated ti Canada in 1920. With an introduction and biographical end-piece "Beatrix Potter 1866-1943" by Margaret Crawford Maloney and a checklist of the Beatrix Potter holdings at the Osborne Collection (compiled by Dana Tenny. Fine Condition.

(COPYRIGHT LAW)BOSWELL, James (1740-1795). The Decision of the Court of Session, Upon the Question of Literary Property; in the cause John Hinton of London, Bookseller, Pursuer; against Alexander Donaldson and John Wood, Booksellers in Edinburgh. Edinburgh: printed by James Donaldson for Alexander Donaldson, 1774.The Decision of the Court of Session upon the Question of Literary Property, in the cause of John Hinton of London, Bookseller, Pursuer; against Alexander Donaldson and John Wood, Booksellers in Edinburgh and James Meurose, Bookseller in Kilmarnock, Defenders. Published by James Boswell, Esq., Advocate. Edinburgh: for James Donaldson, Alexander Donaldson, 1774. 4to, pp. [2], iv, 37; modern half morocco over marbled boards, minor soiling to lower margins of most leaves.st leaves.) First edition, 2nd state, with "Shop" in imprint Initially the costs of processing amounting to £119-16-6, whereby each defender payed £38, but on 22nd February 1774 the House of Lords reversed the Chancery… Read More

DENSLOW (W W):
Denslow's Scarecrow and The Tin-Man.
New York: G W Dillingham Co., 1904.
4to., [12] ff.; colored pictorial stiff wrappers (light soiling).
Text and illustrations by W W Denslow.
First edition.
Denslow argued that his vision of the Oz characters made them popular.

Der Struwwelpeter. Ein Bilderbuch macht Karriere,by Johannes Baumgartner. 2 volumes. Freiburg: privately printed for the author, 1996-1998Tall 8vo., 88, 103 pp.; blue and red cloth bindings with printed pictorial cover labels. Highly important, one of its kind, and profusely illustrated survey of 300 different variations, translations, re-illustrations, anthologies and parodies of these famous cautionary rhymes for children, including controversial political adaptations. The international scope and notes make these volumes essential as a research tool, despite the limited German language text. Finally there has been published a descriptive catalogue of what is probably the best collection in private ownership of Heinrich Hoffmann's famous picture-book: Struwwelpeter (or Slovenly Peter as he is known from English translations). Originally published in 1844, this book of moralizing verse tales with fantastic pictures has never been out of print, and it has generated countless reprints, piracies,… Read More

CRYSTAL PALACE (aka GREAT EXHIBITION) Descriptions of the Egyptian Court erected in the Crystal Palace by Owen Jones and Joseph Bonomi with an historical notice of the monuments of Egypt by Samuel Sharpe, 71pp * The Greek Court. 113pp * An Apology for the Colouring of the Greek Court, 56pp * The Roman Court, ii 86pp * The Alhambra Court, 119pp, * The Nineveh Court, 80pp * The Byzantine and Romanesque Court, 116pp * The Mediæval Court, 123pp * The Renaissance Court, 108pp * The Italian Court, 91pp * The Pompeian Court, 73pp * Guide to the Crystal Palace and Park by Samuel Phillips, 193pp. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854 (the last volume 1856). TWELVE volumes bound as three, each of the dozen titles with a colored pictorial printed front wrapper, folding frontispiece, and profusely illustrated (including additional folding plates). 8vo, 3/4 leather (scuffed), marbled boards (exterior worn, internally near-fine). Individually issued as part of the Crystal Palace Library series,… Read More

LEGER (Fernand), illustrator; GOLL (Iwan):
Die Chapliniade. Eine Kinodichtung.
Dresden: Rudolf Kaemmerer Verlag, 1920.
Small 4to, original pictorial boards after design by Hans Blanke.
PRESENTATION COPY of this 'cinepoem' based upon Chaplin's 'Little Tramp' character,
illustrated with 4 cubist style designs by Fernand Leger.
See Artist and the Book #236

REY (H A):
Die Sommerfrische [Summer Refresh]
Berlin, 1923
Series of 10 Linocut prints (some corners slightly chipped), each signed and captioned in pencil
Each sheet measures 13-1/8 x 9-1/8 inches, loose in original paper portfolio with cover label (edges torn)
Apparently only known copy of this artist's first publication
H[ans] A[ugusto] REY[ersbach], (1898–1977) is best known for his children's book "Curious George" (1941).

Illustrated with black and white designs by Monica Walker. 12mo., 79[1] pp.; gilt-stamped blue boards. First published 1954 as a selection of nursery rhymes known during the reign of George III, Mrs Opie took her texts from an 1805 chapbook Original Ditties for the Nursery published by John Harris which documents the appearance of 'Tweedledum and Tweedledee' later used by Lewis Carroll, 'A farmer went trotting upon his grey mare' selected as a picture-book subject by Randolph Caldecott, 'Little Jenny Flinders' and 35 other rhymes for children. An excellent nursery Gift-book; very uncommon being one of 150 copies numbered and signed in ink by Mrs. Opie on the title-page. Fine condition. Bookseller Inventory # ABB005

Maurice Sendak illustrated DRACULA
SENDAK (Maurice):
Bram Stoker's Dracula. 1997
A Rare Broadside Print – Limited only to 100 numbered copies (this is copy #73), printed on fine textured drawing paper, numbered and signed in ink by the artist underneath his full-color design which measures 5-1/2 x 4-1/8 inches to the borders, on larger paper.Sheet measures 9-3/4 x 7 inches, deckle-edged at bottom
In the unopened envelope (numbered in pencil on the return address)

This was especially prepared by Mr. Sendak for the exhibition: Bram Stoker's Dracula a Centennial Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum & Library, 10 April to 2 November 1997.
The design was also used for the show's poster and illustrated bookmark as well as on the front panel dust-jacket of the descriptive exhibition catalogue (included here: 4to., 36 pp.; pictorial wrappers) -- but only the print is reproduced in the exact size of the original artwork and no copies of the print were done unnumbered or unsigned (except as intermediate… Read More

ELIENS (Titus), GROOT (Marjan) and LEIDELMEIJER (Frans), editors: Dutch Decorative Arts 1880-1940. Kingston: Battledore Ltd., 1997. Profusely illustrated with 150 color and 75 black/white photographs by award-winners Erik & Petra Hesmerg. Large 4to, 256pp; red cloth boards lettered in black, full-color pictorial paper dust-jacket. Based upon a landmark exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), this translation of their catalogue (simultaneously printed) is the first comprehensive study in English of the modernist Dutch decorative arts featuring Nieuwe Kunst (aka Dutch Art Nouveau), Amsterdam School, De Stijl, The Hague School and Functionalism, a MUST HAVE reference for everyone interested in European decorative arts of this period. The book is divided into thematic essays by prominent decorative arts scholars in the field discussing the application of these movements to ceramics, glass, jewelry, furniture, metalware and sculpture. Especially useful is a biographical dictionary and lexicon… Read More